My ineptly pseudonymized friend “Kerr Mudgeon” has been whacking away at the gay marriage issue all week at his blog on the contrary.
He opens the series on a serious note with an essay titled “The Case for Gay Marriage.” His follow-on essay asks “What next? Are we going to have to let them marry their dogs?”
The curmudgeon is a bit of a prude for all his objective observation and risque language. He believes in love and commitment and I think even in moderation. In his final essay on the topic, “Heather has Lots of Families,” he observes,
Most first marriages in America end up in divorce. Many couples are in second or subsequent marriages. The median length of an American marriage is now a mere 8 years. So much for the idea that marriage is a lifelong commitment.
Over 1 million children each year have parents who have just divorced.
Like me, the curmudgeon is offended by the self righteousness and the hypocrisy at the roots of the right-wing so-called “christian” opposition to the formal commitment of marriage between same gender people.
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